Domestic Violence Ch. 9

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C. Henry Kemp

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-Conducted survey of 88 hospitals in which 302 children were identified who been battered
-many suffered multiple injuries
-led to calls for child abuse systems

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1960's, 1970's violence directed at women

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-Recognition of equal status for women in areas such as jobs and pay spread to a growing pressure for equality in marital relationships
-1964 first shelter for battered women

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What behaviors are included in family violence

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Verbal threats, shouting, slapping, agressive gestures, intimidation, spanking, punching, stabbing, striking, shooting, burning

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What are the three types of child neglect?

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physical neglect including refusal of or delay in seeking healthcare, abandonment, refusal to allow runaway to return home, inadequate supervision
educational neglect includes allowence of chronic truancy, failure to enroll a child of mandatory school age, failure to attend a special educational need
emotional neglect- includes actions as marked inattention to childs need for affection refusal or failure to provide needed psychological care, spouse abuse in childs presence, permission of drug and alcohol abuse by child

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What is a polly victim ? (child) 6pt

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multiple victimizations over course of their development
multiple kinds of abuse from multiple sources leads to poorer outcomes
ages 0-3 are the highest rates
mostly female caretakers neglect 3/5
girls are four times more likely to be sexually abused
pet and child abuse occur together in disfunctional families

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5 Other forms of family violence

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Munchausen sydrome by proximity: parents consistently and chronically bring a child for medical attention with symptens falsified or induced by parents (98% mothers)
Shaken baby syndrome: caregiver shakes baby so hard that head injury resluts; anger,
Infantacide: intentional killing of an infant
Neonaticide: killing of newborn within first 24 hours of life, low levels of mental disorder and criminality
filicide: killing of child older than 24 hours, mood and psychotic disorders are more common, neglect and abuse are also causes

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Common spousal batterer characteristics 7pt

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-hold attitudes that evaluate the use of force lessn egatively
-distort causes and consequences of the battering behavior
-assume greater partner negative intent;
-less able to use reasoning
-higher levels of emotional arousal in response to conflict
-higher generalized anger and hostility
-label many forms of negative affect (hurt, jealousy, fear) as anger.

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Batter Typolologies johnson

two type model

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Saw distinct bias in the hypothesized traits of batters based upon sociological and feminist research with female victims in women's shelters

2 type model

common couple violence- some families suffer from occasional outbursts of violence from either husbands or wives, intermittent response to the occasional conflicts of everyday life, motivated by a need to control in the specific situation. more likely to be initiated by male.

patriachal terroist: terrorized by systemic male violence; rooted in patriachal traditions and adopted by men who feel they must control their women by any means necessary

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Batterer typologies
Holtzworth-Monroe, stuart

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-severity of marital violence, gererality of the violence, psychopathy are three descriptive demensions.

three major types of batterers
family only 50%
sysphoric/borderline up to 25%
generally violent 25%

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Family only violence 6pt

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the use of physical aggression emerges as a result of poor partner specific communication skills, dependence on and preoccupation with impulsivity.
-little to no evidence of psycopathology
-mild social skill deficits
-moderately dependent and jealous
-passive or passive/agressive style
-overcontrolled hostility

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Charecteristics of the family only batterer

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-abuse is generally less severe
-generally remorseful
-least likely to be violent outside home
-most liberal attitudes towards women of three types
-low levels of anger, depression, jealously
-least likely to have been abused as children

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Charecteristics of emotionally or dysphoric/borderline abusers 10pt

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-when confronted with relationship conflict percieved as threatening of abandoment and lackign skills to resolve conflict may impulsively use physical agression to express distress and anger.
-highscores for psychopathy, impulsivity and aggression
-they have experienced parental rejection and or child abuse
-emotionally volatile
-tend to be violent only within family
-more socially isolated and incompetent than other batterers

-highest levels of anger, depression, jealousy
-find ways of misinterpreting partners and blaming partners for own mood states
-depression and inadequacy feelings are prominent
-most severely abused as children

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Generally violent aggressors

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Appear to have early experiences which increase the risk of developing positive attitutdes towards violence and negative attitudes towards women, while failing to develop social skills in intimate or non intimate situations. Relationship violence is part of general violent and criminal behavior.

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Charecteristics of generally violent aggressor 12pt

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-Highly antisocial and more likely to engage in instumental violence
-tend to be violent across situations and across different fictims
-more likely to abuse substance
-more likely to have a criminal history
-more likely to have been victim of child abuse
-more likely to have witnessed spouse abuse
-show little remorse
-limited in capacity for attachment and intimacy
-extreamly negative attatudes towards women and conservative relationships
-high pattern of inflicting psychological and sexual abuse
-high association history with deviant peers
-attitudes supportive of violence

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Common group treatment targets for domestic violence 7pt

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Definitions of abuse; power and control
red flags and self talk
communication skills
empathy training
relaps prevention
100 percent responsibility rule
alcohol and drugs

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Group treatment modalities

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-sociocultural
-cognitive-behavioral
-process-psychodynamic
-solution focused
-adaptations to homogeneous poplations
+female perps
+gay perps
+adolescent perps

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Battered womens syndrome
Lenore walker 1979

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described a constilation of sexual history believed to be shared by woman who have been chronically abused

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Psychological effects on child wintesses of domestic abuse 6pt

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-Various outcomes include ptst
-learned patterns of conflict management
-male self-definition issues
-negative attitudes towards expression of feelings
-variety of emotional and behaviorial effects
-research indicates that children who are both witnesses and victims of abuse have more severe aggressive behavioral outcomes
-majority do not continue the violent cycle as adults.
-the proportion of abuse children who go on to abuse own offspring is est 30% own spouses is about 16-17%